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The cost of the keep of some [of the King's hounds 

 were paid for out of the exchequer, others were paid 

 from the revenues and outgoings of various counties, and 

 an immense number were kept by subjects who held 

 land from the crown by serjeantry or in cap'ite of keeping 

 a stated number of running hounds, greyhounds, and 

 brachets, &c., for the King's use (Blount's Ancient 

 Tenures, Plac. Chron. 12, 13 Ed. I.; Issue Roll 25 

 Henry VI. ; Domesday, tom. i. fol. 57 v). 



We see by the early records of our kings that a pack 

 of hounds did not always remain stationary and hunt 

 within easy reach of their kennels, but were sent from 

 one part of the kingdom to another to hunt where 

 game was most plentiful or where there was most vermin 

 to be destroyed. As early as Edward I.'s reign we find 

 conveyances were sometimes provided for hounds when 

 they went on long journeys. Thomas de Candore or 

 Candovere and Robert le Sanser (also called Salsar), hunts- 

 men of the stag and buckhounds (Close Rolls 49 Henry 

 III. ; 6, 8 Ed. I.), were paid for a horse-litter for fifty- 

 nine days for the use of their sixty-six hounds and five 

 limers (Ward. Ace. 14, 15 Ed. I.). And as late as 

 Henry VIII. 's time the hounds seemed to travel about 

 considerable distances, as in the Privy Purse expenses of 

 that King the cart covered with canvas for the use of his 

 hounds is a frequently recurring item. 



SCANTILON, O. F. eschantlllon. Mid. Eng. ^can- 

 tilon^ Mod. Eng. scantling, mason's rule, a measure ; the 

 huntsman is continually told to take a scantllon^ that is, 

 a measure, of the slot or footprint of the deer, so as to 

 be able to show it at the meet, that with this measure 

 and the examination of the droppings which the huntsman 

 was also to bring with him the Master of the Game could 

 judge if the man had harboured a warrantable deer 

 {see Appendix : Slot and Trace). 



SEASONS OF HUNTING. In medieval times 



